Boo Hoo… I am back… back to reality… no more pyramid, fountains or giant heaps of potatoes…
I was worried when I reached San Fransico on 6 February, I would be too tired to go for Sianna Sherman’s workshop in the same day afternoon.
But after sleeping for hours on the plane, I felt quite awake when I got off the plane. I was confused with the time for a while and had a heavy lunch at Subway ( yes, my first meal in the US is Subway… ) thinking that I still had 3 hours more to digest the meal when in actual fact, I had only 1 hour.
Lucky for me, the walk to the studio had me work off my fullness as I searched for the little studio Yoga Tree SF, Hayes Studio. The walk was nice amid a little scary at first with a couple of homeless people hanging around in front of the hotel that I am staying.
I love the cold chilly wind blowing…. I got a chance to wear my long boots and long coat finally ( which I bought in Taipei for less than $20 each just because they were cheap even though we have only hot summer weather in Singapore ) I was early.. in fact the first to arrive for the workshop.
I realized that how troublesome it was to have chilly weather… the layers of clothes you had to discard to change into your yoga gear. We really had it easy in Singapore!
When Sianna walked into the studio, she looks nothing of her age (I just saw in the latest issue of Yoga Journal that she is already 39 ). She looks as if she is just in her twenties and she is very sweet and gentle. How amazing yoga is!
The theme of this class was about backbends and Sianna combined her previous day experience at a ballet performance with backbends. The ballet performance was about a russian folklore about firebird and she had all of us pretending that we are firebirds, full of grace, power and beauty. Sianna is really a lovely storyteller who weaves interesting and beautiful tales into our practice… 
Some of the yogis in the workshops are very good and really inspiring to watch when Sianna had them demonstrate. Sianna also uses some props like chairs, blocks and blankets to help us in all our “bendy” escapades. The ones with the chairs are most interesting as I do not get to do them in Singapore ( studio I go to do not have chairs to use ). Especially memorable was the scorpion forearm balance with the help of the chair. We also did some fun handstands, including a single hand handstands ( against the wall of course! ).
I was secretly hoping for some dropbacks but unfortunately there was none… the time was really too short!
But it was a good refresher for me and I am grateful for the chance to be able to attend!
OM~
PS. Happy Chinese New Year to everyone!
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